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net: ipv6: unexport __init-annotated seg6_hmac_init()

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: unexport __init-annotated seg6_hmac_init() EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text section is freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot use symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up with kernel panic. modpost used to detect it, but it has been broken for a decade. Recently, I fixed modpost so it started to warn it again, then this showed up in linux-next builds. There are two ways to fix it: - Remove __init - Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL I chose the latter for this case because the caller (net/ipv6/seg6.c) and the callee (net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c) belong to the same module. It seems an internal function call in ipv6.ko.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
4.14.283, 4.19.247, 5.10.122, 5.15.47, 5.17.15, 5.18.4, 5.4.198
CVEs
CVE-2022-49339
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 00:51 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

net: ipv6: unexport __init-annotated seg6_hmac_init()

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Feb 2025, 02:10 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: unexport __init-annotated seg6_hmac_init() EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text section is freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot use symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up with kernel panic. modpost used to detect it, but it has been broken for a decade. Recently, I fixed modpost so it started to warn it again, then this showed up in linux-next builds. There are two ways to fix it: - Remove __init - Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL I chose the latter for this case because the caller (net/ipv6/seg6.c) and the callee (net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c) belong to the same module. It seems an internal function call in ipv6.ko.

osv:CVE-2022-49339

Kernel

Fixed versions: 4.14.283, 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.122, 5.15.47, 5.17.15, 5.18.4

Complete source record
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